Simon Montlake

I'm the Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes. I joined the magazine in Bangkok where I covered Southeast Asian business and politics for over a decade, taking me deep into the weeds in Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. In my new...

I'm the Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes. I joined the magazine in Bangkok where I covered Southeast Asian business and politics for over a decade, taking me deep into the weeds in Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. In my new role I blog on all things China, from tech whizz success to political bottlenecks and botched acquisitions.

This guest post was written by Wang Yue, a news assistant in FORBES' Beijing bureau Baidu campus, Beijing Pirated content is everywhere in China. You can hardly walk into a street store without finding some pirated music, films and games. Piracy also thrives online. The country’s largest video website, New York-listed Youku [...]

This guest post was written by Wang Yue, a news assistant in FORBES' Beijing bureau Small plots, big dreams China’s most important policymaking session is underway. During a four-day closed-door meeting that ends Tuesday, President Xi Jinping has been laying out social and economic reforms for almost 400 of China’s top politicians. [...]

David Roman, Lenovo's chief marketing officer (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker that aspires to consumer electronics ubiquity, has posted a 36% rise in net profit for the quarter to Sept 30. Lenovo said Thursday that it made $220 million on $9.8 billion in revenues, a [...]